Faced with criticisms over the decision not to make public the findings of an international audit firm into the possible misappropriation of funds at Dunn's River Falls and Park, chairman of the board of the Urban Development Corporation (UDC)...

Small ganja farmers across Jamaica will have to find the money to fully comply with all the rules governing traceability from seed to sale if they want to participate in the legal medical marijuana industry.Alex Spelman, vice-president of SICPA...

Chairman of the board of directors of the Bureau of Standards Jamaica (BSJ), Government Senator Matthew Samuda, has confirmed reports that Stephen Wedderburn is to be replaced as its executive director.Wedderburn's contract comes to an end on...

The possibilities for the explosion of Jamaica's medical marijuana industry have attracted the interest of another major multinational corporation that wants to set up shop in Jamaica. And it says it has a plan to ensure that the traditional small...

Jamaica scored poorly in the category of safety and security but still gained four places, moving into the 54th position in this year's Legatum Institute Prosperity Index, which captured data from 149 countries.The ranking placed Jamaica eighth of...

The decline in the value of the Jamaican dollar replaced crime as the major concern for businesses in determining their investment decisions.Since 2001, when the first quarterly Jamaica Chamber of Commerce (JCC) Business and Consumer Confidence...

Local businesses have cooled their expectations for growth in the economy but consumers remain gung-ho about Jamaica's economic prospects.That is among the major findings of the Jamaica Chamber of Commerce Business and Consumer Confidence Survey for...

Prime Minister Andrew Holness has vowed that the Government will use every legal tool at its disposal to erode the capacity of criminals to spread mayhem across the island.Addressing a hastily called press conference at Jamaica House yesterday to...

Education minister Ruel Reid is seeking to allay the fears of the Jamaica Teachers' Association (JTA) that the Government is set to change the operations of the well-respected National Council on Education.Since 1993, the National Council on...

Rain could be a decisive factor when People's National Party (PNP) delegates meet to elect four vice-presidents today.Just over 3,100 delegates are on the voters' list, and vice-presidential elections usually attract about 80 per cent of those...

The People's National Party (PNP) will use its 80th annual general conference next weekend to outline its plans to take Jamaica forward if it is elected to form the next government.PNP General Secretary Julian Robinson says that while the party has...

Questions by members of the Andrew Holness administration about the accuracy of the growth numbers produced by the Statistical Institute of Jamaica (STATIN) should now be put to rest following a presentation to the Cabinet by the agency.Minister...

Members of Parliament's Constituency Development Fund Committee yesterday blasted school administrators who continued to demand the payment of auxiliary fees before students are admitted.During a special sitting of the CDF committee yesterday...

Concerns by members of the board of the St Ann Development Company (SADCO) about ticket revenue being generated at Dunn's River Falls and Park have prompted a major investigation. The police Fraud Squad, Major Organised Crime and Anti-Corruption...

There will be no Independence celebrations for residents of 68 and 70 Bond Street in Denham Town, west Kingston, today. They will instead spend the day trying to make preparations to move on with their lives after fire ravaged their houses yesterday...

Two men, a Jamaican and a Trinidadian, are now in custody as the police probe the gruesome find of a partially decomposed body in an apartment on Whalley Close in Mona, St Andrew.The police are awaiting the DNA results to establish the identity of...

Almost seven in every 10 Jamaicans would not recommend an abortion to a friend who is faced with an unwanted pregnancy.Only one in seven persons (14 per cent) would recommend the termination of the pregnancy, while 17 per cent would give their...

The island's public school teachers should see a five per cent increase in their basic salaries come payday next month.The teachers will also see increases in several allowances, plus any top-up that they may be due on the five per cent retroactive...

While seven out of every 10 Jamaicans are firmly against abortion on demand, an equal number are adamant that it is the woman's right to determine if she is going to terminate an unwanted pregnancy and not the Government's.That's the finding of a...

The governing Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) is preparing to vigorously defend the National Identification and Registration Act, better known as the NIDS Act, which is now the subject of a court challenge by the parliamentary Opposition.JLP sources...

Ethel Pete-Smith was in bed with the pitter-patter of the rain on her roof lolling her to sleep when she heard a loud rumbling, then a crash, as the wall to rear of her house at 19 Harbour Drive in Harbour View, St Andrew, collapsed.The floodwaters...

The fear was evident in the faces of several residents on Harbour Drive in Harbour View, St Andrew, yesterday, as they prayed for an ease in the rain that lashed the community Sunday evening into Monday morning.More rain over the next 24 hours could...

At 45-year-old Sandra 'Pagey' Heron is mother to the four children she gave birth to, six she has unofficially adopted and scores of others, she is determined to keep out of trouble in the east Portland community of Manchioneal."I do it out of the...

A split in the deadly Clansman gang has been playing out violently across sections of the St Catherine North Police Division and is believed to be the main driver behind a 60 per cent increase in murders in the area since the start of this year.With...

New police commissioner could look to the Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) to bolster his management team as he takes office.There is growing speculation that former head of the JDF, Major General Antony Anderson, will look to his former colleagues for...